sacrilegiousness

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  • Sacrilegiousness — Sacrilegious Sac ri*le gious, a. [From sacrilege: cf. L. sacrilegus.] Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. [1913 Webster] Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. Pope. [1913 Webster] {Sac ri*le… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • sacrilegiousness — noun see sacrilege …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • sacrilegiousness — See sacrilegiously. * * * …   Universalium

  • sacrilegiousness — n. profanity, quality of being a violation of the holy; state of being guilty of profanity …   English contemporary dictionary

  • sacrilegiousness — noun profaneness by virtue of committing sacrilege • Derivationally related forms: ↑sacrilegious • Hypernyms: ↑profaneness, ↑unsanctification * * * sacrileˈgiousness noun • • • Main Entry: ↑sacri …   Useful english dictionary

  • sacrilege — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin sacrilegium, from sacrilegus one who robs sacred property, from sacr , sacer + legere to gather, steal more at legend Date: 14th century 1. a technical and not necessarily… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • sacrilegious — sacrilegiously, adv. sacrilegiousness, n. /sak reuh lij euhs, lee jeuhs/, adj. 1. pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices. 2. guilty of sacrilege: a sacrilegious person. [1400 50; late ME sacrilegiose; see SACRILEGE, OUS]… …   Universalium

  • blasphemy — blas·phe·my / blas fə mē/ n pl mies: the crime of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God or a religion and its doctrines and writings and esp. God as perceived by Christianity and Christian doctrines and writings see also… …   Law dictionary

  • impiety — I noun apostasy, backsliding, desecration, disregard, disrespect, iniquity, irreligion, irreverence, malediction, noncomformity, offense, profaneness, profanity, recusancy, reprobation, sacrilege, sacrilegiousness, sinfulness, transgression,… …   Law dictionary

  • blasphemy — Synonyms and related words: abuse, affront, anathema, ban, befouling, billingsgate, blasphemousness, commination, curse, cursing, cussing, damnation, denunciation, desecration, evil eye, excommunication, execration, fulmination, hex, impiety,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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